...Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero can be seen in many works of Literature, and has verified its importance towards a lot of authors. His definition basically states that the character comes from a noble figure, occupies a high position in his/her society or kingdom and epitomizes a tragic flaw that ultimately leads to his or her downfall. The term Hubris is defined as excessive pride and self-confidence. It indicates that the person who exhibits it has lost contact with reality and always overestimates his accomplishment, which can lead to his/her downfall. The downfall could be anything from mental disturbance to even death. The concept of a tragic hero can definitely be seen in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare’s King Lear. Even though there are differences in both the writing, they also have some similarities. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the title character was the king of Thebes, and his city was infected with a poisonous plague. To discover the source of the plague and to get rid of it, the Oracle of Delphi was called. It turned out to be that the only way to get rid of plague would be to banish the killer of the former ruler of Thebes, Laius, from the city-state. Oedipus was Laius’s and Jocasta’s son, which was given to shepherd and was order to kill Oedipus, because it was found out that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother. He was very shocked after hearing this because he did not believe that he would ever do something like that. Jocasta then...
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...1: Pentium Flaw Intel Corporation discovered a design flaw in June of 1994 in its flagship Pentium Processor. For divisions involving a few specific numbers, the chip's floating point unit gave the wrong answer. Intel's tests showed that the error only appeared in the ninth significant digit of the answer and affected only a minuscule percentage of the possible division combinations. Intel did not handle the problem correctly, they consider the flaw to be “minor” .They said that it wasn’t the first time a flaw of this nature happened so Intel continued to sell hundreds of thousands of chips that were already made. Intel pretty much ignored the flaw and did nothing to satisfy its consumer. Dr. Thomas contacted Intel’s technical support in October of the same year and had no luck, so he decided to post the problem in a blog, which brought immediate attention to Intel. At the beginning Intel said that that they will only replace the flawed chip only for those users that work with heavy duty scientific/floating point calculations since the problem did not affected everyone else using simple mathematics. Later that year after the increased coverage by worldwide print and electronic media, Intel fear and decided to recall the chip on December 20, 1994. Intel decided to offer a replacement chip to all of its end-users—"no questions asked." Intel took a $475 million loss for the replacement program. In today’s society I think it would be mostly impossible for a flaw to happen...
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...When dealing with technology and computers, you come to expect flaws and glitches seeing that these devices are manmade. One of the biggest computer flaws in computer history was the “Pentium Microprocessor flaw”; this was a bug in the Intel P5 Pentium floating point that caused the processor to return incorrect results for many calculations used in math and science. This bug was blamed on the fact that there were a few missing entries in the lookup table used by Intel. This flaw was exposed by Professor Thomas R. Nicely, who was a professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Nicely discovered this error June 13, 1994 when noticing some inconsistencies in his calculations. It took Nicely until October 19, 1994 to be sure that it was in fact the microprocessor causing his error. Once Nicely was sure that this was causing the error he reported it to Intel October 24, 1994. It was later discovered that Intel was aware of this flaw since May 1994 while they were conducting some testing for a newer model. News of this bug spread quickly, and Intel needed to respond publicly. They responded stating that there was a floating point flaw but that they didn’t feel it would affect many users and offered to replace processors for users who could prove that they were affected. The public was not satisfied with this response and Pentium was forced to offer a replacement to all users who requested a replacement. This dramatically affected the finances of Intel; the company announced...
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...The Pentium flaw was discovered by Thomas Nicely. The nature of the flaw was that it wouldn’t divide correctly using FPU (floating-point unit).The flaw was found in 1994, when he was computing the sum of the reciprocals of a large collection of prime numbers on his Pentium-based computer. Checking his work, he found the result differed from his original answer. He got correct results by running the same program on a computer with a 486 CPU, and finally tracked the error to the Pentium itself. Intel announced that "an error is only likely to occur about once in nine billion random floating point divides, and that an average spreadsheet user could encounter this subtle flaw once in every 27,000 years of use." It first publicly admitted the problem November 28 1994, and that they would replace Pentium chips only for those who could explain their need of high accuracy in complex calculations. Great public outcry ensued and by late December Intel capitulated and announced a free replacement Pentium for any owner who asked for one. In my opinion Intel did not handle the situation correctly at first and then corrected their mistake later on. Originally Intel should have made sure that the Pentium worked correctly to begin with. After the flaw was found, they should have tested it themselves and told the public the truth instead of lying about it. This caused them to lose face when they were proved wrong. In response to customers’ outrage they decided to provide a free replacement...
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...A world without rules In my opinion a society without laws is a society in a state of chaos. A state without laws and government would be anarchy. By definition anarchy is a state of disorder due to the absence or recognition of an authority figure. Life without some type of rules to control us would literally be a state of disorder. We are all human beings, and by human nature we have flaws. If these flaws are not controlled in some way, they can get out of hand and wreak havoc upon a person and the people around him. If there were no laws, people would do as they pleased. On a daily basis you would see theft, murder, rape and cruel and harsh life that would apply Darwin's theory; only the strong would survive. The weaker people of a society who could not survive in a completely free state would suffer and diminish because their rights would in no way be protected. There would be no justice. If a family member were murdered, there would be no one to turn to. The government enforces laws such as not killing people. In this type of society the people who would prosper would be uncontrollable. For example the law requires that people show up for their jobs or else they are fired. These jobs provide a basic lifestyle for us. If one day when laws were gotten rid of, people just didn't show up for work, we would lose all things that are vital for our everyday lives. Such things are food, transportation, and education. Without laws controlling these people they could simply not show...
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...Now in contemporary American society we see view dissipate. When comparing Odysseus to Ishmael Beah, a modern hero who endured the dangerous Sierra Leone Civil War and now a civil rights activist, we see can see a few comparisons. Both of these men committed murders. Yet, while Odysseus was not forced into these situation while Ishmael was. When delving further into their lives we see that Odysseus was brutal, selfish, arrogant, and surely not the hero he was claimed to be. In today’s contemporary society, brutality is frowned upon. Odysseus; however, is a person of brutal nature. We see this exemplified when Odysseus return from Ithaca and murder every suitor who took over his house, mercilessly killing people even when it was unwarranted. Though countless men pleaded for life he did not halt with his actions. An example is when when Leódês’ begged for forgiveness yet “[Odysseus] picked...
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...Christian Apologetics. Brief Overview and Main Points The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and its Ramifications for Life in the 21st Century, by Doctor Terry Mortenson, is a journal article that claims to be about Old Earth Geology history, and perceived consequences that this ideology has inflicted on our society today. In actuality, this article provides little knowledge or background on the Old-Earth theory. This article utilizes most of its text explaining Scriptural Geology, key individuals of Scriptural Geology, arguing the validity of the Young-Earth belief, and closing with an over generalized assessment of Old-Earth theory’s impact on society. Article Strengths The article clearly identifies the writer’s discontent with the flaws in modern science, and the downfall of modern society. Doctor Mortenson provides, with vast detail, the belief of validity regarding Scriptural Geologist theories, and their credentials. Mortenson provided a section, consisting of seven paragraphs, which discussed the development of Scriptural Geologists, and dynamic backgrounds for various individuals of importance in this geological community. This article immaculately depicted the flaws in modern science, historical science, and in scriptural science. Mortenson wrote, “They were in fact just as biased as the scriptural...
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...Mickens Mr. Gamwell E Block 7 April 2014 Imperfect Perfect World Some people believe that a utopian world may be better than a less perfect world, yet the imperfections of a utopian society realistically outweighs its ultimate goal of perfection. Perfection is defined as the condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects. When it comes down to it, a utopian society has many rules and regulations. Yet, if a so called perfect society is so perfect, then there should be no need for any rules or regulations. However, a Utopia's goal of perfection in itself is a contradiction, because of its goal of being "more perfect and less free" (Huxley 1). As a matter of fact a utopian society would be like a heaven on earth. At the same time there is not really a unified view of utopia. All views of utopia involves change which affects human systems and institutions. How can a society aim to be perfect when by definition freedom is needed in order to be perfect. In fact that's something people still find hard to understand and today's society. Have you ever ask yourself what is freedom,it's the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Foremost this is something they didn't have at the time of the utopian society. Well by definition a utopia is a perfect world where everything is prefect and equal but you have no freedom to do what you want; Basically your life is scripted like a book. However if you...
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...Woods scandal brings up many questions concerning today’s society and the ethical and moral obligations that celebrities have when companies invest in you in exchange for your endorsement of their products. Although, Tiger Woods may be a great golfer his moral choices have proved to be less than desirable by the masses. According, to the Judeo-Christian values that our country was founded on (Cherry, 2007) adultery is believed to be morally unacceptable and thus makes the basis of the utilitarian approach to this discussion. The utilitarian theory is based on the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. This theory may hold true when speaking of adultery. I agree that adultery is wrong but do Tiger’s personal indiscretions warrant the abandonment of his endorsers. Was Tiger hired on the basis that he lived a moral life or because he is a great golfer? Now that Tiger Woods has made a public apology, does the belief that everyone deserves forgiveness prove to have priority over the condemnation of adultery? The utilitarian approach determines the greatest priority by the happiness level or consequences it produces. Since your happiness level is greater when influenced by positive behaviors, it is natural to assume the endorsers should reinstate Tiger. But is it realistic. No matter how much I want to believe that everyone in America would forgive and forget, I do know that the majority of people in today’s society are highly influenced by the press and tend to...
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...well known form of pop culture and is the portraying of the female body to be used to serve as a person's sexual pleasure. It is seen everywhere from advertising to news and reality TV shows. Gender stereotypes play a huge role in how women are viewed today. To tell if something is showing a woman as a sexual object, you see if the overall ‘lesson’ is learned by using a females body parts. Gender roles plays a crucial role in today’s time. There are major differences in the Novel The Crucible and Colonial Puritans societies compared to today’s society....
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...Law Enforcement in today's Society Sandy McQuinn cjs/200 july14,2012 Dr. Theresa Fox Law Enforcement in today's Society There are several issues that the Police Department face in Today’s Society that are a big concern. Since the beginning of policing, there has been a problem with police corruption and concerns about racial profiling in society. Some police officers will use abusive power and authority for personal and organized gain. Police officers will turn their back on criminal activity for a financial gain and lose the respect from Society because of their corruption. Dangers on the job are an issue for officers to face in today’s society. Police officers face deaths from stress, car crashes, on the job training, and deaths at the hands of the offenders apprehended to protect the community. Police are exposed to diseases while in contact with an offender. Officers can contract AIDS and other diseases from blood and bodily fluids from hypodermic needles during a search, bites, urine or feces. Stress can be a contributed because of the requirements of the job. The American Institute of Stress ranks an officer to be a top ten stress-producing job in the United States. The officer wants the work effective and without mistakes and flaws so this is stressful Police see homicides, victims of accidents and other disturbing scenes that people can’t even imagine. Police officers live in constant fear because the danger...
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...Design Flaw and Solution to the Micron Pen 005 Sydney Jacobson University of Minnesota—Twin Cities DES 1101V Intro to Design Thinking Design Flaw and Solution to the Micron Pen 005 Sydney Jacobson University of Minnesota—Twin Cities DES 1101V Intro to Design Thinking Abstract This paper serves to analyze the Micron Pen 005 and its efficiency. Created as a high quality item, with its aptness for high detail and sustainability, the soft tip of the pen shortens the lifespan through attrition. I propose a solution to increase the amount of soft tip available in the pen by redesigning the pen to assimilate a mechanical pencil. I then delve into detail about the Micron Pen 005’s reflection on society in regards to accessibility, quality, and frugality. This analysis is then concluded that my solution would create a more reliable product. Design Flaw and Solution to the Micron Pen 005 Even in today’s technology dependent world, a quality pen is a necessity. People desire something that has permanence and accuracy for daily tasks such as writing reports, scratching down notes, or drawing out rough drafts. A pen that glides onto the paper with precision is necessary to get the job done perfectly. Now enter Sakura’s Micron Pen. Designed with the user in mind, the average person is able to handle it with the simplest of motions. However, specifically with the Micron Pen 005, there are flaws that have some considering this pen as inefficient and thus needs to...
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...Utopia functions as a “perfect” society with negligible flaws. The Utopian customs are an important facet of making this society truly perfect. Albeit some customs contribute to this perfect society, others are innately impossible and lack human conscience. The acknowledgment of these customs, along with its flaws, constantly serves as a reminder that a perfect society, Utopia, will likely never be existent in the modern world. Raphael Hythloday, the narrator of Utopia, states that the Utopians “might indeed put the gold and silver into plate-ware and such handiwork, but then in case of necessity the people would not want to give up such articles, on which they had begun to fix their hearts, only to melt them down for soldiers’ pay.”(611) The Utopian usage of gold and silver will not work for soldiers’ compensation. Utopians commonly disregard and even scorn the thought of gold and silver, so for soldiers to accept it as a means of payment will contradict the long upheld Utopian culture. Moreover, gold and silver are abundances in Utopia; as such, the basic concept of supply and...
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...GDP and its Flaws The Gross domestic product of a country primarily indicates the state that the country’s economy is in. Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of all market activity, as well as all the money that changes hands in a country during a fiscal period. GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis and it measures the total output of all goods and services produced in a country. It is a standard measure of the country’s total economic activity. As a country’s GDP rises, it is an indication that the economy is doing well, but as the GDP decreases, this is a clear sign that the country is experiencing economic downfall. However is the GDP an adequate measure of the countries well being? There are many flaws when considering the GDP, therefore it isn’t s good economic indicator. In today’s society, unemployment rates are increasingly high. There are many people whose income relies on jobs in which they do not receive a direct pay cheque. Individuals who are unemployed often volunteer in their communities, or find other ways to occupy their time. GDP only counts money transactions, so it leaves out many favours that people provide for each other at no cost. Moreover major parts of the household economy are ignored such as care for the elderly and for children, home maintenance and cleaning, food preparation. To add on voluntary service for the environment such as church and civic groups are also uncared for when considering the GDP. However GDP assigns...
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...Scientific research concerning living organisms is usually beneficial. They are done to cure people from illness and to save people's lives. Especially thanks to this day and age where we have the technology and research to do so, compared to back then. However when science used to alter people or animals then it crosses a line that is considered immoral to all -- for instance altering a rabbit’s genetics so that they can glow in the dark. Changing an organism and making them mutants like that violates the sacredness of life, and although it is somewhat condonable for this type of research with rabbits, if we were to do something similar to humans it would be beyond comprehension. It is clear that Hawthorne does not agree with alternating the human form with science, especially when using that science to try and make things more perfect in ones life; "Has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?" says Aylmer hinting at how he wants to remove his wife’s birthmark, on her cheek. Aylmer feels that this experiment is necessary just because his wife was nowhere near perfect, with this birthmark. "...upon another arm perhaps it might, but ...you came so hideous from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.” If Georgiana’s “imperfection” had not stood out so much in his eyes Aylmer more than likely would not have minded...
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